We are full at the moment with a theatre company from Switzerland who are putting on a production of La Comedie des Erreurs in the garden of the local big house.
We always serve Fromage Frais with our breakfast fruit and as I feared we might run out I dropped into our local shop to see if they stocked it (this shop is called Le Point Show , another reason to get lost in translation, as they used to stock Videos [show] and they are a hot bread shop [chaud])
As this is a shop with a counter, and the goods behind it -remember them ?- I asked Madame if she had some fromage frais.
Madame was obviously offended “Mais toutes mes fromages sont frais Monsieur !”
I quickly realised my mistake.
The soft fresh cheese which I serve here, we call fromage frais (literally fresh cheese) in Ireland , here, in the Languedoc, it is called Fromage Blanc.
I quickly corrected myself with madame and , mollified, she allowed me to buy some cheese for breakfast.

It does leave me with a very strange anomaly , why in Ireland do we call this cheese a different – but still French name ? And why is the French word for Cul-de-Sac :- Impasse ?